On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Marco
Schuster<marco(a)harddisk.is-a-geek.org> wrote:
And so to the disk. If the disk or the controller
sucks or is simply old
(not everyone has shiny new hardware), you're also damn slow. What should
also not be underestimated is the diskspace demand of a GIT repo - not
On most projects I'm working on, even ones with long histories, the
git repo is around the same size as a checkout and on many it s
smaller. Of course, you'll also need a checkout in order to do useful
work with it, but doubling the storage isn't usually a big deal.
If you're the sort of person who does development using a whole lot of
separate local trees git can use the same storage to provide history
for all of them, even when the trees are partially divergent.
DVCS is especially useful on a laptop because you can perform useful
version control while disconnected from the internet.